PtB we don't have an atheist system in Australia but a secular system. Get your facts right.

PtB, blaming the tragic death of that poor child on atheism, indicates you will steep to gutter level, in your attempt to give credence to your extreme religous belief.

BOAZ_David,

I can always tell when you are rattled and arguing on shaky ground - you resort to childish personal abuse. And you're not even very clever at it.

Not only do you get the specific law wrong but now you show your appalling ignorance of legal history. It's hard enough to prove the facts of a matter so how would you prove intention or motive? It is the effect of a person's actions that matters, not their intention.

You get worse David. Not content just to give wrong legal advice, you now claim that a learned judge got it wrong in a specific case. Could you tell us once again what your legal qualifications are please?

Repeating an error at law will not make it become true. Calling Christianity "a Lie" is NOT 'blatant... unambiguous and clear'. It is NOT vilification.

So offering gratuitous advice to 'all would be vilifier' on how to soften the blow of truth is just compounding your nonsense. Moreover, you have given us so much hatred of Islam on OLO to last us all a lifetime - and surprise, surprise, no-one has claimed that you have breached the law. If you are consistent in your interpretation of the law, you would would have been in breach more times than I can count.

spotbanana has nailed it.

The first comment was adequate for this article.

Boaz,

Sorry to dismantle your soap box, but your grasp of legal matters is extremely scanty.

The act you are quoting i.e.
“A person must not, on the ground of the religious belief or activity of another person or class of persons, engage in conduct that incites hatred against, serious contempt for, or revulsion or severe ridicule of, that other person or class of persons.”
Is there to prevent hate speech and not promote blanket censorship, and might at a stretch apply if I said all Christians were Pr*cks, but cannot be applied to censor criticism.

I believe that Christianity is a lie, but I have many good friends that are devout Christians and in spite of not sharing a faith share many values.

Peter the believer

Your attributing of the death of little Darcey to atheism is shameless and heartless, and completely without foundation. If this is an example of your Christian ethics, then the country is well shot of them.

I agree with most of the arguments that suggest this article is utter nonsense, but what strikes me most is Sellick's arrogance in assuming that atheists only have no belief in the Christian God. As has been pointed out a few times, we atheists don't believe in ANY God, god, or gods (or ghosts, leprechauns, fairies...)

Mr Sellick, I'm sure you 'think' you don't believe in my Celestial Teapot, but you don't realise that the Celestial Teapot is not really the Celestial Teapot that you think it is (nor do most CelestialTeapotists, sadly, as they're uneducated). Therefore, you're not really an aCelestialTeapotist. You poor, ignorant fool!

Oh, by the way BOAZ_David... Christianity is a LIE. C'mon get me, Vic Police!